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Old Town

When you comes to Jakarta would not be complete without visiting some of the historical museum in Jakarta. Jakarta museum that will always remind us of the history of the city.

Known as Fatahillah Museum or museum Jakarta / Batavia museum / old town is a museum that can be used for a variety of events, in my opinion. Often used as a place for gathering, pre-wedding photos, wedding receptions, filming locations, often used for “pesta rakyat”.

In 1937, the Foundation filed Oud Batavia plans to establish a museum of the history of Batavia, the Foundation then buy the company's warehouse Geo Wehry & Co is located in the east of the Great exactly on Jl. Great Northern No. door. 27 (now museum Wayang) and rebuild it as Oud Batavia Museum. Old Batavia Museum was opened to the public in 1939.

At the time of independence was turned into a museum of the Old Djakarta Museum under the auspices of the IFIs (Indonesian Cultural Institute) and later in 1968'' Old'' Djakarta Museum handed over to the local government of DKI Jakarta. Governor of Jakarta at the time, Ali Sadikin, then inaugurated the building of the Museum of History of Jakarta on March 30, 1974.

At Fatahillah Museum no underground prison used in the Dutch era, the dungeon for men and women are separated. When I visited there a dungeon for a very dark man, issuing a bad odor, there are pools of water, and very humid places may be due to under ground. We recommend that if it is still used for its sights fixed locations, given adequate lighting and treated. Indeed, when I visited there I like to live in an age of jakarta ago. There are also a large collection of items once used by the people of the past until now, such as pottery, ceramics, and inscriptions. And there are also paintings.

And interestingly there Fatahillah dimuseum statue of the god Hermes who according to Greek mythology, the god of good luck and protection for the merchants.
And there is also the robust cannon. Based on historical records Fatahillah Museum, The Jagur was made ​​by MT Bocarro in Macao as one of the Portuguese army combat equipment. The large cannon that is robust length 380 cm, diameter 39 cm mocong front and outer circumference of 50 cm, circumference and the center of the rear body 158 cm, and weight 7000 pounds, or about 3.5 tons.

After from Fatahillah Museum, we moved to the puppet museum or wayang museum. Not a lot of interesting information obtained from the wayang museum. There’re collected more than 4,000 pieces of puppets, shadow puppets made ​​up, puppet show, puppet cardboard, grass puppets, puppet leaf, masks, puppet beber and gamelan. Generally, these puppet that come from Europe, although there are also those who came from non-European countries such as Thailand, Suriname, China, Vietnam, India and Colombia.
Wayang museum building was originally a church building that was built in 1640 under the name "de Oude Kerk Holandsche". Repaired in 1732 and changed its name to "de Nieuw Kerk Holandsche". The building was once destroyed by the earthquake. Above ground ruins puppet museum building is constructed and inaugurated its use as a museum on August 13, 1975 which was inaugurated by H. Ali Sadikin.